Displacement

Rights

News

IFI campaigners win environment prizes

This year's Goldman Environmental Prize honoured two activists who have been tackling World Bank projects and policies.

28 May 2004

Rights

News

Pakistani hunger strikers seek reparations for damaging project

In March Pakistani activists observed a hunger strike in front of the World Bank offices in Islamabad. The strikers pointed out that Bank-backed projects have caused serious damage to their livelihoods and the coastal ecology and called for the loan to be suspended.

5 April 2004

Rights

News

World Bank Loans to Andhra Pradesh: Financing bloodshed and impunity?

Human rights activists in Andhra Pradesh have strongly objected to World Bank plans for a new economic reform loan to the state government.

3 February 2004

Environment

News

UK MPs support Bushmen

A motion signed by 42 MPs urges the UK government to encourage Botswana to respect the rights of Botswana's Bushmen.

24 November 2003

Private Sector

Commentary

Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline

Around the world, when politics and money prevail, the environment is the last issue considered.…

17 November 2003 | Guest comment

Rights

News

IFC “doubts” labour fears in Haiti, approves loan

The International Finance Corporation approved a loan of $20 million to the Dominican Republic's largest Export Processing Zone operator, Grupo M, for a new development on the border with Haiti.

17 November 2003

Accountability

News

Chadians "mourn" while World Bank and oil companies celebrate pipeline

The coalition of Human Rights Associations in Chad has called for a national day of mourning on October 10, the date of the official inauguration of the Chad Cameroon Oil Pipeline.

8 October 2003

Rights

News

IFC decision pending on controversial Haiti free trade zone

The Board of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank’s private-sector arm, is in the final stages of approval for a loan for development of the first of a series of proposed free trade zones along the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

11 September 2003

Environment

News

World Bank announces renewed big infrastructure push

The World Bank President has pledged that the Bank will revive its support for megaprojects and a new report expresses serious concerns about the Bank's track record in this area.

8 September 2003

Environment

News

Activists oppose Bank ‘clean development’ credits for Brazilian forest plantation

One of the first pilot projects using the World Bank's climate change carbon trading programmes has come under fire from local groups for endorsing destructive tree plantations.

21 July 2003